Our Leadership Team
Meet the exceptional individuals who drive ZirapTech's vision forward. Each leader brings decades of expertise, innovation, and a shared commitment to revolutionizing AI-powered trading through ethical practices and technological excellence.
Chief Executive Officer
Marcus D. Dunlop, Sr.
Chief Executive Officer
Marcus D. Dunlop, Sr.
Marcus Dunlop stands at the helm of ZirapTech as a visionary global leader whose 35-year executive career has consistently transformed organizations into industry-defining powerhouses. With a track record spanning five corporations, his leadership has driven sustained double-digit growth, operational excellence, and global market dominance.
Before joining ZirapTech, Dunlop served as Senior Vice President and President of three Fortune 1000 enterprises, where he built frameworks for innovation and performance that continue to influence corporate best practices today. Most recently, as Ambassador of North America, he brokered high-impact alliances that reshaped continental trade and technology policy cementing his reputation as a strategist with both vision and executional mastery.
In the realm of AI-driven trading, Dunlop brings unmatched expertise and an unwavering passion for transforming financial systems through intelligence, precision, and ethical innovation. His approach merges strategic foresight with a deep belief in human potential instilling cultures of empowerment, accountability, and excellence across every team he leads.
Chief Risk Officer
Sophia Larson
Sophia Larson is the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) at ZirapTech. She brings over a decade of experience in financial risk management, quantitative analysis, and trading operations, with a strong focus on building resilient, compliant, and scalable trading ecosystems.
At ZirapTech, Sophia is responsible for designing and overseeing the company's global risk framework, including capital protection rules, drawdown controls, model validation processes, and regulatory alignment across all supported markets. She works closely with the AI, trading, and compliance teams to ensure that ZirapTech's automated strategies operate within clearly defined risk parameters while maintaining performance, stability, and long-term sustainability.
Prior to joining ZirapTech, Sophia held senior risk and portfolio oversight roles at multiple global trading and fintech firms, where she was responsible for developing institutional-grade risk models, stress-testing frameworks, and real-time exposure monitoring systems across crypto, FX, and equity markets. She played a key role in implementing portfolio-level risk engines that aggregated firm-wide positions, liquidity metrics, and volatility signals to dynamically adjust leverage, position sizing, and capital allocation in response to changing market conditions.
Sophia holds advanced training in finance, quantitative risk, and financial engineering, and is known for her ability to combine deep technical understanding with clear strategic judgment. Her leadership at ZirapTech ensures that innovation is balanced with discipline, and that growth is always supported by a strong foundation of risk intelligence, capital protection, and operational integrity.
Chief Technology Officer
William Hein
William Hein is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at ZirapTech. He leads the architecture and engineering of ZirapTech's AI trading platform, overseeing system design, scalability, performance, and security across all environments.
He specializes in building distributed, low-latency trading systems, real-time data pipelines, and execution infrastructures that support automated strategies across crypto, FX, and equity markets. His expertise includes microservices architecture, high-throughput messaging systems, model deployment pipelines, and fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure.
William works closely with quant and AI teams to translate research models into production-grade systems, ensuring reliability, auditability, and operational resilience. He also leads platform security, data integrity, and disaster recovery initiatives to protect client data and ensure continuous system availability.
His work ensures that ZirapTech's technology platform meets institutional standards for performance, stability, and transparency while enabling rapid innovation in AI-driven trading. Earlier in his career, William worked closely with quantitative research and execution teams to bridge the gap between strategy design and real-world trading behavior, helping deploy advanced risk analytics platforms capable of ingesting high-frequency market data, order flow, and macroeconomic indicators.